Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat & Chhattisgarh witnesses an upsurge in Daily New Cases

New Delhi: India’s Active Caseload is 1,51,708 today comprising 1.37% of the total positive cases. This is largely attributable to the upsurge in daily new cases in some States. Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh have recorded a rise in daily new cases.

16,738 new daily cases have been recorded in the last 24 hours.

89.57% of the new cases are from7States.

Maharashtra continues to report the highest daily new cases at8,807. It is followed by Kerala with4,106while Punjabreported558 new cases.

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The Centre has deputed high-level multi-disciplinary teams to Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir (UT) to ascertain reasons for the surge and coordinate with the State Health Departments in COVID-19 control and containment measures.

The Centre has also written to States/UTs to focus on undertaking aggressive measures to break the chain of transmission. The States/UT have been advised to increase testing in a focussed manner in the affected districts with the appropriate split of RT-PCR and Rapid Antigen Tests and to also ensure that all symptomatic negatives of antigen tests are compulsorily tested via RT-PCR tests. The positive persons are to be promptly isolated/hospitalised, all their close contacts be traced and also tested without delay. They have been advised to critical review the emerging situation on a regular basis with concerned District officials to ensure that gains made so far in COVID management are not lost.

On the other hand, the country has been witnessing a continuous decline in cumulative positivity rate. As on 25th Feb 2021, the cumulative positivity rate stands at 5.17%.

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As at7 am today, the vaccination coverage was1,26,71,163through 2,64,315sessions, as per the provisional report. These include 65,47,831HCWs (1st dose), 16,16,348 HCWs (2nd dose) and 45,06,984 FLWs (1st dose).

The 2nd dose of COVID19 vaccination started on 13th February, 2021 for those beneficiaries who have completed 28 days after receipt of the 1st dose. Vaccination of the FLWs started on 2nd Feb 2021.

No.

State/UT

Beneficiariesvaccinated

1stDose

2ndDose

TotalDoses

A&NIslands

5,644

2,118

7,762

AndhraPradesh

4,72,460

1,20,443

5,92,903

ArunachalPradesh

22,433

5,497

27,930

Assam

1,79,625

15,795

1,95,420

Bihar

5,40,315

60,480

6,00,795

Chandigarh

17,256

1,306

18,562

Chhattisgarh

3,66,493

39,390

4,05,883

Dadra&NagarHaveli

5,047

266

5,313

Daman&Diu

1,858

254

2,112

Delhi

3,48,669

29,025

3,77,694

Goa

16,741

1,559

18,300

Gujarat

8,30,565

80,118

9,10,683

Haryana

2,16,422

55,075

2,71,497

HimachalPradesh

98,881

12,818

1,11,699

Jammu&Kashmir

2,17,910

10,285

2,28,195

Jharkhand

2,72,164

17,708

2,89,872

Karnataka

5,86,545

1,79,124

7,65,669

Kerala

4,22,669

70,600

4,93,269

Ladakh

8,199

748

8,947

Lakshadweep

2,344

639

2,983

MadhyaPradesh

6,46,766

77,584

7,24,350

Maharashtra

9,81,359

1,05,752

10,87,111

Manipur

46,042

2,190

48,232

Meghalaya

28,248

1,200

29,448

Mizoram

19,643

4,031

23,674

Nagaland

27,195

5,141

32,336

Odisha

4,50,361

1,34,587

5,84,948

Puducherry

9,436

1,023

10,459

Punjab

1,39,305

27,388

1,66,693

Rajasthan

7,83,652

1,47,570

9,31,222

Sikkim

15,875

1,056

16,931

TamilNadu

3,68,678

46,149

4,14,827

Telangana

2,83,387

1,06,583

3,89,970

Tripura

86,336

16,416

1,02,752

UttarPradesh

11,40,754

86,021

12,26,775

Uttarakhand

1,39,169

11,833

1,51,002

WestBengal

7,87,013

99,478

8,86,491

Miscellaneous

4,69,356

39,098

5,08,454

Total

1,10,54,815

16,16,348

1,26,71,163

On Day-40 of the vaccination drive (24thFebruary, 2021), 5,03,947vaccine doses were given. Out of which, 2,87,032beneficiaries were vaccinated across 9,959 sessions for 1st dose (HCWs and FLWs) and 2,16,915 HCWs received 2nd dose of vaccine.

Out of total1,26,71,163vaccine doses, 1,10,54,815 (HCWs and FLWs) have received 1st dose of vaccine and total 16,16,348 HCWs have received the 2nd dose of vaccine.

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Eight States account for more than 56% of the total vaccine doses.

Each of them has administered more than 6 lakh doses. Uttar Pradesh have vaccinated 9.68% of the total doses (12,26,775).

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Eight States account for 61% of the total second vaccine doses. Karnataka vaccinated maximum number of HCWs for second dose i.e. 11.08% (1,79,124).

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12 States/UTs have administered second vaccine dose to more than 80% of the eligible HCWs. These are Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland, D&D, A&N Islands, Lakshadweep, Kerala, Gujarat, Tripura, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Sikkim.

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10 States/UTs have vaccinated more than 60% of registered FLWs. These are D&N, Rajasthan, Lakshadweep, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh.

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India’s cumulative recoveries stand at1,07,38,501today. The Recovery Rate is 97.21% today.The gap between total recovered cases and the active cases is constantly rising and stands at 10,586,793 today. 11,799 recoveries were registered in the last 24 hours.